ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,578, issued on July 21, was assigned to Galvanize Therapeutics Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Pulsed electric field waveform manipulation and use" was invented by Quim Castellvi (Barcelona, Spain), Robert E. Neal II (Redwood City, Calif.), Timothy J. O'Brien (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Jonathan R. Waldstreicher (West Orange, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems and methods are provided for delivering pulsed electric field (PEF) energy to tissue through one or more energy delivery bodies, each having one or more electrodes. The PEF energy is generated from a waveform having a variety of features. Waveform delays, such as ...